Literature
Bluffton - Richland Public
Library
Contact: Carolyn Boisvert
Address: 145 S. Main St.
Findlay, Ohio 45817
Phone: 419.358.5016
Email:boisveca@oplin.lib.oh.us
Website: www.library.norweld.lib.oh.us./bluffton
Description: The Blufton Richland Public Library
provides educational, informational materials and services.
Facilitates access to materials and information beyond the collection.
Specific programs seek to encourage and enable a process of life-long
learning.
Fee: Most program are free of charge.
Carole Elchert
Address: PO Box 572
Findlay, OH 45839
Phone: 419.365.7131
Email: Carole799@yahoo.com
Description: Writing and prose performance;
photographer; slide presentations on Nepal, Tibet and Italy;
travel/tour facilitator.
Fee: $100 and up - Varies
Bobbie Sue Grenerth
Address: PO Box 112
Mt. Blanchard, Oh 45867
Phone: 419.694.3001
Email: grenerth@att.net
Description: Performance of interactive children’s
songs and stories with a nature based theme, multicultural exposure.
Fee: Varies with travel
Jeff Gundy
Address: 124 S. Lawn
Bluffton, OH 45817
Phone: 419.358.3283 or 419.358.5425
Email: gundyj@bluffton.edu
Website: www.bluffton.edu/~gundyj
Description: Widely published poet and essayist
available for readings, workshops, or lectures. New book of poems
Rhapsody with Dark Matter.
Fee: Negotiable
Nancy Harllit
Address: 55 Minerva St.
Tiffin, Ohio 44883
Phone: 419.448.4557
Description: Folk-singer and storyteller. Historical folk music
and stories.
Fee: $150 up to 3 hours.
Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center of Bluffton College
Contact: Elizabeth Holdeman
Address: 280 West College
Bluffton, OH 45817
Phone: 419.358.3207
Email: lionlamb@bluffton.edu
Website: www.bluffton.edu
Description: We are a resource of 5,000 volumes of
children’s books on peace-related issues,
1,000 teacher and curriculum guides and 120 pieces of art representing
peace issues and multicultural traditions and book illustrations.
Fee: College tuition fees for teacher
education, Children’s workshops free or covering cost of materials.
Candace Miller
Address: 429 S. Cole St.
Lima, Oh 45805
Phone: 419.227.2516
Email: bode@wcoil.com
Description: Storyteller and author of nature legends
used to connect children with nature. Emphasis on integrating science
into the curriculum.
Fee: Negotiable
Erica Peters
Address: 14833 County Road 216 Findlay, OH 45840
Phone: 614.580.3366 (cell)
Email: gwynnie22@hotmail.com
Description: Freelance writer, rewriter, copyeditor, and proofreader.
Fee: Negotiable
